On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:47:54PM -0500, Aaron Hall wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > > >with all three of them at the same time (apt, aptitude, and synaptic). > >That's what I am doing now. I started off with apt-get, then I got to > >know aptitude, which adds a few nice tricks, and finally went with > >synaptic because I tried it and like it. I sometimes switch between the > >three depending on what I want to do and how I want to do it. Never had > >my box break ! > > Switching between apt-get and aptitude makes it easier to get yourself > into trouble if you don't really understand what the programs are doing > and what their (subtle) differences are.
Now I know that there are subtle difference, and that I should understand them. Are they more than that aptitude remembers which packages were explicitly requested? Are they documented somewhere? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]